Thursday June 12 2025 Content Updates

Radicals

(11) - Updated the meaning mnemonic.

(13) - Added “fast” to the block list.

Kanji

(6) - Added “fast” to the block list.

(8) - Added “verdict,” “voting,” “judgement,” “vote,” and “judgment” to the warning list.

(24) - Added “lower back” as an alternative meaning, added “upper hips,” “upper hip,” and “hip” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.

(31) - Added “take into account” as an alternative meaning, added “paragon,” “learn from,” “assess,” “exemplar,” and “epitome” to the allow list, added “specimen” and “prototype” to the warning list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.

(37) - Added “carry out” as an alternative meaning, added “carrying out” to the allow list.

(48) - Moved “assault” to the warning list, added “punch” as the primary meaning, added “hit” as an alternative meaning, added “beat” and “strike” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.

(48) - Added “wise” as an alternative meaning, added “smart” and “sage” to the allow list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.

(59) - Added “gallbladder” as an alternative meaning, added “gall” to the warning list, updated the meaning mnemonic and hint, and updated the reading mnemonic and hint.

Vocabulary

五日 (2) - Added “fourth day” to the block list.

当たり (5) - Updated two context sentence translations.

(6) - Added “fast” to the block list.

明日 (8) - Moved みょうにち to the warning list, and updated the reading explanation.

表す (9) - Added “to throw” to the block list.

決定する (10) - Updated one context sentence.

対立 (10) - Updated one context sentence.

仕事 (11) - Added “chore,” “labor,” “business,” and “duty” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.

決まる (12) - Updated one common word combination.

着ける (14) - Added “to leave” to the block list.

周囲 (14) - Moved “perimeter” to be an alternative meaning, moved “surroundings” to be the primary meaning, moved “environs” to the allow list, added “environment,” “surrounding,” “people around you,” and “around you” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated three context sentence translations.

(16) - Updated the reading explanation.

品物 (18) - Updated the reading explanation.

財閥 (19) - Updated the meaning explanation.

衣服 (22) - Moved “clothes” to be an alternative meaning, moved “clothing” to be the primary meaning, added “apparel” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

(24) - Added “lower back” as an alternative meaning, added “upper hips,” “upper hip,” and “hip” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

捜査 (25) - Rearranged the order of the context sentences.

憲政 (28) - Updated the meaning explanation.

有益 (28) - Updated the meaning explanation.

過程 (28) - Updated the meaning explanation.

絶やす (31) - Moved “to kill off” and “to let die out” to the allow list, added “to let something die out” as the primary meaning, added “to put an end to something” as an alternative meaning, added “to put an end,” “to put an end to,” “to kill something off,” “to let something die,” “to exterminate something,” “to let end,” “to let something end,” “to let something come to an end,” “to eradicate,” and “to eradicate something” to the allow list, added “to stop” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, added four common word combinations.

散る (31) - Added “to fall,” “to flutter,” “to flutter down,” “to break up,” “to disperse,” “to break away,” “to distract,” “to divert,” “to fall apart,” “to die,” “to be killed,” “to perish,” and “to dissolve” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.

融資 (31) - Added “lending money” as an alternative meaning, added “loaning,” “loan money,” “loaning money,” and “lend money” to the allow list, added “finance,” “lend” and “lending” to the warned list, and updated the meaning explanation.

印鑑 (31) - Added “personal seal” as an alternative meaning, added “one’s seal,” “stamp,” “small stamp,” “one’s stamp,” and “personal stamp” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

鑑定 (31) - Moved “expert opinion” and “judgement” to the allow list, added “expert judgment” as an alternative meaning, added “appraising,” “judgment,” “expert judgement,” “expert analysis,” “appraise,” “judge,” “judging,” “evaluate,” “evaluating,” “evaluation,” “assess,” “assessing,” and “assessment” to the allow list, added “identify,” “identifying,” “analysis,” “analyze,” “analyzing,” “grade,” “grading,” “authenticate,” “authentication,” and “authenticating” to the warning list, added “approve” and “approving” to the block list, and updated the meaning explanation.

遊び (32) - Updated two context sentence translations.

鑑みる (35) - Moved “to be in light of something” to the allow list, moved “to take something into account” to be the primary meaning, added “to be in light of” as an alternative meaning, added “to learn from,” “to learn from something,” “to take warning from,” “to take warning from something,” “to reflect on something,” “to reflect on,” “to reflect,” and “based on” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, and updated the reading explanation.

温床 (37) - Added “breeding ground” as an alternative meaning, and updated the meaning explanation.

執る (37) - Moved “to take control” to the allow list, changed the primary meaning to “to take up”, added “to take charge,” “to take charge of,” “to handle,” and “to attend to business” to the allow list, added “to take,” “to do,” “to perform,” and “to hold” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.

執着 (37) - Moved “tenacity” to the allow list, removed “obsessed with” from alternative meanings, added “obsession” and “clinging to” as alternative meanings, added “being obsessed with,” “cling,” “cling to,” “clinging,” “adhere,” “adhering,” “adhere to,” “adhering to,” “persist,” “persisting,” “persist in,” “persisting in,” “be tenacious,” and “being tenacious” to the allow list, added “insist,” “insisting,” “insist on,” “insisting on,” “be attached,” “being attached,” “be attached to,” and “being attached to” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.

執筆 (37) - Moved “write for a magazine” to the allow list, added “professional writing” as an alternative meaning, added “authorship,” “write,” “professionally write,” “writing for a magazine,” and “professionally writing” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

炒飯 (42) - Added “chahan” as an alternative meaning, added “stir-fried rice” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

未決 (46) - Added “unresolved” as the alternative meaning, moved “unsettled” and “not yet decided” to the allow list, added “unconvicted,” “TBD,” “to be decided,” “unsolved,” “not yet finalized,” “not finalized yet,” “not decided yet,” “not yet settled,” “undetermined,” and “not convicted yet” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, added common word combinations, replaced three context sentences with new four context sentences.

(46) - Added “verdict” as the alternative meaning, added “voting,” “judgement,” “vote,” and “judgment” to the allow list, added “decide” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, updated two common word combinations, and updated one context sentence.

挿話 (47) - Moved “episode” to be an alternative meaning, added “side story” as the primary meaning, added “anecdote” to be an alternative meaning, added “inserted story,” “inserted episode,” “digression,” “supplemental story,” “happening,” “tangent,” and “tangential story” to the allow list, added “incident,” “vignette,” and “aside” to the warning list, updated the meaning explanation, and added three new context sentence translations.

賢人 (48) - Updated the meaning explanation.

賢明 (48) - Added “smart,” “judicious,” “prudent,” “sagacious,” and “well advised” to the allow list, added “intelligence” to the warning list, and updated the meaning explanation.

殴る (48) - Updated the meaning explanation.

殴打 (48) - Updated the meaning explanation.

殴り込み (50) - Updated the meaning explanation.

陥る (53) - Added three new context sentences.

自決 (56) - Moved “self-determination” to the alternative meaning, moved “self determination” to the allow list, updated the meaning explanation, replaced the context sentences with new ones, and updated the common word combinations.

執行猶予 (58) - Updated the meaning explanation.

(59) - Moved きも to the warning list, moved “innards” to the allow list, added “fortitude” to be an alternative meaning, added “pluck,” “nerve,” and “gallbladder” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

胆石 (59) - Updated the meaning explanation.

慶事 (59) - Moved “happy event” to the allow list, added “joyous occasion” to be an alternative meaning, added “matter for congratulation,” “joyous event,” and “happy occasion” to the allow list, and updated the meaning explanation.

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I think you forgot the additions, no? 対決 and 漣斗. Or you only list updates of existing entries in these threads?

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There’s a separate thread for the additions: WaniKani Content Additions and Movements: Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 - Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 - #23 by mbrubeck

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Ooh, ok, I didn’t realize that the two were mutually exclusive.

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What does “block list” mean?

Words that will always be marked as a wrong answer for that item, even if the “close enough” detector would otherwise allow it. It also prevents you from adding the word as a custom synonym.

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